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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Open Source Time Series DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoresiridb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.siridb.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleCesbitSiteWhere
Initial release201720172010
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.simple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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